Cedric Price’s Polyark project sought to unite architecture students across the UK - now it’s been given new life as an international event that could be the best thing to happen to architecture education this year

An employee at engineering and urbanism practice, Alan Baxter & Associates, has landed a coveted Fulbright Award to fund study architecture at Yale University. Jasdeep Bhalla has been awarded $25,000 of the $40,000 per-year course fees. During the first year of the three-year American Institute of Architects-accredited degree with Yale providing the $15,000 as part of a spearate scholarship. The university will cover 67% of the fees during the remaining two years, leaving ...

Architecture students are stepping up their protests at the planned rise in tuition fees by occupying student campuses and preparing to take to the streets ahead of Thursday’s vote on the issue by MPs.

The case of a young designer whose attempt to retrain as an architect has been thwarted by a rule that would force him to pay sky-high fees has prompted his MP to ask the further education minister to investigate.

The project is located within the ruins of an abandoned and silver smelting works at Silverberg in the Dalarna region of Sweden. The proposal divides the site into two main areas, Public zone and Private zone, broken by a stream but connected by bridge.

The Strata project is concerned with creating new types of social interaction and blurring the boundaries between exhibition and studio.at the new Greenwich University Institute of Fine Art on Greenwich peninsula in London.

Polyark welcomes a small flurry of new members from Portsmouth School of Architecture this week.Unsurprisingly, most of them are signing up to attend the forthcoming lecture at their university by Andrew Phillips of David Chipperfield Architects on April 15.

Polyark welcome a number of new members this week, including the RCA’s Rachel Harding who shared images of a project aimed at making the public more open to the idea of radiation having health benefits.

Christopher Vansittart's album 'Polyark Mapping' was one of the images that caught Polyark's watchful eye this week, with his group work exploring the great central railway from Leicester to Loughborough.

One thing that caught our eye this week was Ralph Furulund's Eco House competition submission entitled "The Eco-Parasite". Rather than the hapless host being we humans, the victims this time are environmentally unsound or derelict buildings.

Judging from the work on display this year, the school encourages self-generated as well as directed assignments, allowing the students the opportunity to think twice: what is expected from me? What do I expect?

Unemployed architecture graduates looking for practical experience after completing part I will be able to undertake an unpaid placement of up to 13 weeks without forfeiting their £64.30 jobseeker’s allowance, under new rules

Every year BD holds its 'Class of' awards to identify the brightest upcoming architectural talent. With 2008's winners unveiled, Emily Cadman looks up a few of last year's winners to see how they've fared.

From exotic spots such as Istanbul and Rome to more domestic locations such as Sheffield and Whitstable, the ambitions of BD’s five graduating diploma student award winners were scattered far and wide this year. Ellis Woodman, BD’s buildings editor, looks at what marked them out

Architecture schools must meet the challenge of sustainability if they are to survive, delegates at July’s Oxford Conference will hear. This week, four leading figures — Susan Roaf, Christopher Alexander, Rab Bennetts and Steven Parissien — say why change is needed. Next week, the schools respond

As architects we are intrigued with the idea of erasure. This year we are looking at how we live, and questioning the inessentials. It is through the practice of erasure that we allow room for history and process to be in evidence with the present, if ever so subtle. A way of working that allows for all the ambiguity and complexity of a place to coexist with a new situation.

The AA pavilion has taken students from writing their own bespoke software to building at 1:1 scale. Unit 2’s tutors — Martin Self and Charles Walker of Arup’s Advanced Geometry Unit — look back on a learning experience

For years the AA has been using the Serpentine pavilion as a teaching tool, but this summer a group of its students will build their own structure out of timber and construct it outside the school in Bedford Square. Elaine Knutt looks at the winning scheme and the runners-up